Exe/ Executive - Production

Perfetti Van Melle; Chennai Metropolitan Area; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Perfetti Van Melle in Chennai seeks a Production Engineer to ensure production plan alignment with sales expectations and to maintain service levels for domestic and export channels.

The role requires a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and 3–6 years of FMCG/auto experience, with strong TPM/KAIZEN, Lean and problem‑solving skills. Safety and GMP compliance are essential.

Qualifications

• B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering is essential.
• 3 to 6 years of experience in FMCG or automobile industries.
• Knowledge on Pumps, Gear, Relays, Starters, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, motors, Troubleshooting, TPM, Lean, KAIZEN, POKAYOKE, SPC, Thermodynamics and Material Science.

Responsibilities

• Ensure monthly/weekly production plan compliance to meet sales norms.
• Maintain high customer service level for sales, modern trade and exports.
• Drive TPM, KAIZEN and IDEA factory initiatives for reliability.
• Address CAPA for production downtime, quality holds, and complaints.
• Lead safety, GMP adherence, and CPPs; support cross-functional teams.

Skills

Pumps & Pneumatics

Troubleshooting

KAIZEN & TPM

Lean Manufacturing

Safety Compliance

Education

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Graduation in Food/ Food Technology Engineering

Job description

Role & responsibilities

1. Ensure monthly / weekly production plan compliance of plant in order to ensure that products are available to sales team as per agreed norms.

2. To ensure customer service level compliance to sales and modern trade & exports as per the agreed norms.

Productivity Reliability-

• Effective man power & Machine utilization to achieve pre-set production targets
• Inspecting the actual production Vs plan, reviewing of compliance to various schedules, resolve issues with supply chain and quality related issues with team functions, handle issues and implement identified action plans, implement through put/cycle time improvement.

Manufacturing Excellence-

• Planning and implementing predictive / preventive maintenance schedules for machinery to increase machine up-time / equipment reliability
• Drive KAIZEN & IDEA factory
• TPM activities drive & implementation

System Excellence-

• CAPA for Production down times, Quality Holds, Rejects and Customer complaints
• Drive Shift Review meetings and Proactively identifying the abnormalities and closure of the same on priority basis in coordination with cross functional team members.
• Preparing the inputs for the Weekly review of all FPR Production lines
• Quality Process compliance
• PPS/LTS implementation
• Adhering to SOPs, Manuals & work instructions for production operations
• Undertaking regular inspections to prevent accidents and adhere to safety norms.
• Controlling CCPs as per HACCP standards
• Production MIS

GMP Score Improvement & audit point closure

• GMP and GHK adherence across all areas
• Daily GMP walk and taking immediate actions and ensuring GMP across all areas and initiating actions to sustain the same.
• Closure of respective FPR line/area GMP Gaps and initiate CAPA to avoid the recurrence of Gaps.

Cost Saving Initiatives

• Executing energy saving & other cost saving measures with suitable modifications in process.
• Reject (Rework+scrap) reduction initiatives in respective FPR lines
• Drive Sparkle projects

• Ability to develop the shop floor members on different machines(Multiskilling) in shift.

Preferred candidate profile

Qualifications / Certifications

Essential

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Desirable

Graduation in Food/ Food Technology Engineering

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge on Pumps, Gear, Relays, Starters, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, motors, Troubleshooting, TPM, Lean, KAIZEN, POKAYOKE, SPC, Thermodynamics and Material Science

Desirable

Type of Ingredients and flavours

Experience

Essential

03 to 06 years of experience in FMCG or automobile industries

Desirable

Core exposure in Confectionery